National Conference leader and former MLA Altaf Ahmad Wani was on Thursday evening stopped from flying to Dubai from the Indira Gandhi Inte...
National Conference leader and former MLA Altaf Ahmad Wani was on Thursday evening stopped from flying to Dubai from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, PTI reported.
Unidentified officials told The Hindu that Ministry of Home Affairs had put 38 politicians from Jammu and Kashmir on a “no-fly list”. This ban came into effect after the Centre abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370, in August last year. Wani was among the politicians who were put under detention by the government.
Wani told the newspaper that he had to go to Dubai for his niece’s engagement. “I was stopped at the immigration for over four hours and finally told I am barred from travelling outside the country”, he said.
The leader said that he was asked to wait in a room. Immigration officials initially assured him that they had sought permission from Srinagar to let him fly out, The Indian Express reported. “I believe the permission did not come through, the officials cited a technicality and said I cannot fly out of the country,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “Later, some officers of the J&K Police intervened and I was allowed to leave the airport.”
An unidentified official from the home ministry told The Indian Express that Centre was...
